[texhax] help with making active url link

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

2011/7/13 Thomas Schneider <schneidt at mail.nih.gov>

> Sam:
>
> > If I understand you correctly, then I suggest using hyperref as in:
> >
> > \usepackage{hyperref}
> >
> > then use the command:
> >
> > \href{link}{Text describing the link}
> >
> > Hyperref is also nice to modify the colour of the links and do other
> useful things in the pre-amble.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, I'd forgotten about that package.  That
> made the url have a blue box around it, but it still fails.
>
> \href{
> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
>     {
> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/\~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html}
>
> Acrobat gets my browser to:
>
> > Not Found
> >
> > The requested URL /~{}Gabriele.Nebe/LATTICES/density.html was not found
> on this server.
>
> With skim it gets to:
>
> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/
>
> Making '\~{}' to be '~' fails too.  The link is in a figure legend but
> moving it to the main text doesn't help.
>
> Tom
>
>  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
>  National Institutes of Health
>  National Cancer Institute
>  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
>  Molecular Information Theory Group
>  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
>  schneidt at mail.nih.gov
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Did you try the URL package?

\usepackage{url}


\url{http://www.google.de}

Uwe

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Uwe Ziegenhagen
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